Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] hold the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was always busy with these pages , working out the correct day for planting date trees , for pollinating or foretelling the week when the pods would burst and the golden maidenhair would tumble out into the sun , each hair holding the promise of a cluster of dates . |
| 2 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ House ’ to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof : regrets that Her Majesty 's Government 's preoccupation with divisions in its own Party has meant that in the Inter-Governmental Conferences it has not taken the negotiating approach necessary to ensure that the United Kingdom exercises decisive influence on the future of the Community in ways which will help to advance the living and working standards of the people of this country in company with other peoples of Europe ; calls upon Her Majesty 's Government to work for an agreement at the European Council which ensures inclusion of the Social Charter , qualified majority voting on social and environmental matters , powers for the European Parliament to hold the Commission to account in ways that complement the role of national parliaments , decision-making at the level — local , regional , national or Community — where maximum democratic control is at all times exercised , foreign and security policy co-operation without the development of a European Community military role , widening of the Community as rapidly as practicable , co-operation to combat terrorism and other crime , and strengthened powers for ECOFIN as the politically responsible counterpart to any European Central Bank system ; and urges the Government to work to secure agreement to , and adopt policies for , high levels of employment , sustainable non-inflationary growth , balanced regional and national economic development and social cohesion , and for the fundamental reform of the CAP , in order to achieve real economic convergence in the years leading to economic and monetary union and a single currency as the essential foundation for those changes and to safeguard the long-term interests of the people of the United Kingdom . ' . |
| 3 | But the easiest to explain it is the fact there is that less gravity on this side holding the sea water in . |
| 4 | This file holds the polygon ( zone ) outlines in order Z01 to Z42 . |
| 5 | For the first time , an English king held the duchy from the French crown in liege homage . |
| 6 | For a long time , too long in fact , this theory held the field , until improved analytical methods showed that various samples of nucleic acid did not have the exact constant proportions of the different bases required by Levene 's tetra-structure . |
| 7 | If the sides are very steep , it may be necessary to erect some formwork to hold the concrete while it is setting . |
| 8 | This approach holds the promise of making the computer a valuable resource in teaching throughout the curriculum . |
| 9 | Negotiations with a difficult character ( e.g. the Pied Piper holding the town 's children in the mountain caverns ) are better conducted with the teacher taking on the problematic role because the teacher can judge just how difficult to make the task , and can allow the children success when they need it . |
| 10 | Users can share Windows applications , requiring that only one personal computer holds the application and files . |
| 11 | The hardware to perform multiplication requires two n-bit registers to hold the multiplier and multiplicand , and a 2n-bit register to hold the product , since it may have up to ( 2n-1 ) significant bits . |
| 12 | Economy 7 delay Holds the wash until lower-price electricity tariff comes in ( usually after midnight ) . |
| 13 | The idea of one global power holding the other to ransom seems less credible now than it has done previously . |
| 14 | Demaine thinks that LOGO holds the promise of giving children access to advanced concepts at a far earlier stage than Piaget would have thought possible . |
| 15 | The little girl holds the caterpillar , plies it carefully from the twig to which it had moulded itself . |
| 16 | Sir Thomas had quarrelled with my husband over some business matter and persuaded the powers that be that my husband was no fit person to hold the position , whatever the quality of his poetry . |
| 17 | He paused as he always did at the foot of the stairs , his left hand holding the lamp , his right hand resting on the banisters . |
| 18 | The left hand holds the rabbit 's back legs , the right hand takes hold of the rabbit 's head in front of the ears . |
| 19 | He reached in and wrenched the little bundle of plastic bands out of my hands , and I sat there , silent , watching as he fumbled the bands into position with the little cup to hold the weapon under his right armpit . |
| 20 | Following the general election in April 1989 the Arab Baath Socialist Party holds the majority of the Assembly seats , the remainder being distributed among members of the state-sponsored National Progressive Patriotic Front ( NPPF ) [ see p. 36601 ] . |
| 21 | The European Court held the refusal was a breach of his right to a private and family life , since the file was the major record of his childhood , and there should have been an independent body which could override an improper refusal of consent . |
| 22 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 23 | In hard cases , on the other hand , the negative part holds the stage . |
| 24 | In 1474 he held the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex , and was Mayor of London in 1482–83 — the 200th Mayor of the City , and the eleventh Goldsmith to hold the honour . |
| 25 | The partially closed window holds the foam in place , allowing the cable or hose free movement . , |
| 26 | ‘ I could n't sit there all day holding the rod and feeling for only one or two bites , which is all you get on the water I fish , ’ and , ‘ I 'd like to see anyone catch fish from my local cut when touch legering . ’ |
| 27 | There is no top ledge as with the T-cut method to hold the bud in position while you bind it in , so you have to be careful how you handle the bass or the elastic band . |
| 28 | It was announced on Dec. 13 that British Airways , the Dutch carrier KLM , and the Belgian carrier Sabena had agreed to form a new airline , to be called Sabena World Airlines , in which each would hold a 20 per cent stake ( the Belgian government holding the remainder ) . |
| 29 | Count Mandred , the acclaimed defeater of the Skaven , was elected Emperor and his respected generalship and charismatic personality held the Empire together during a vulnerable period of recovery . |
| 30 | If he ever arrived at that most famous of all Dwarf Holds the Dwarf records do not tell . |